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Recess opened on Grand Street in September as a storefront artist residency space open to the public, and their inaugural show by Corin Hewitt and Molly McFadden, Double Room, tackles questions of replication, authorship, documentation, labor-as-performance, and collaboration.
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... a lull in Iraqi violence helps spur cultural activity ... homeless artists in Austin, Texas, have an art show & benefit ... art mogul Eli Broad is scouting for a museum location ... artist Sam Bassett is arrested for trying to make New York's Sotheby's building into art.
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While Main Street continues to hemorrhage jobs and Wall Street revives its ridiculous bonus system, the elite among us -- most notably the trustees of the New Museum -- will probably be very interested to know where they should stash their valuables during these sad times in case, well, in case ...
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... Kiev awaits its own art destination-worthy art center ... Banksy gets marked up before people have a chance to vote about keeping it or not ... the Getty Trust & the Egyptian gov't is working together to preserve King Tut ... a San Francisco muralist gets stabbed on the job ... the Obama's send
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...Jean Nouvel's new MoMA tower gets chopped and approved...Bushwick politico meets with local arts community...San Francisco galleries are branching out...and starting this week everyone will be looking to the art auctions of New York as a barometer of the art world's economic health.
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...Grand Rapids, Michigan, stunned by success of ArtPrize Festival...Mark Rothko's first solo show in Moscow to take place this spring...van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam launched "Vincent van Gogh: The Letters" website with complete images and text of all the artist's correspondence...Ukrainian art webs
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The @Platea social media art collective is doing a cover of Vito Acconci's seminal "Following Piece" (1969), which was first initiated forty years ago this month. A study in the public spaces we occupy and assumptions around privacy, Acconci followed random people in Manhattan during the month and r